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Playing games on the PC sucks...
Before you start an outrage on this topic, hear me out: some PC games are great games, i'm not judging the quality of these games. It's just that they're so inconsistent in terms of performance from PC to PC...
I offered a brand new laptop for my brother this christmas, because the one he had was already breaking down. I chose this one in specific because I knew it was more than enough to run "Sonic Generations", and it was also cheap enough so I could afford it. But then we tried the game, and it had so many slowdowns. I tried to fix it, but nothing worked. Here's my brother's new laptop's specs:
Notebook Acer Aspire AS5742G 488G75 Mnkk LX RDP02 012 - LX RDP02 012 - Aspire - Acer - da Acer (not all is in english, but I think you won't have trouble understanding it)
And here's the system reccommendations for "Sonic Generations":
OS: Microsoft Windows 7
CPU: Intel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.0 GHz
RAM: 3GB RAM
RAM: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (1GB) / ATI Radeon HD 5850 (1GB)
What the f***? My brother's new PC is more than enough to run it flawlesly! His graphic card is twice as powerfull (2G instead of 1), The processor is the one they reccomend using, he has 5G more of RAM than reccommended and he has Windows 7. How can this not work? It doesn't make any sense!
My laptop, which I bought this year in february I think, is not as strong but it can run Sonic Generations almost flawlesly...this just makes no sense to me at all!
Here are my laptop's specs:
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Notebooks- ASUS N53Jq
MY 6G of RAM has to compete against his 8G, my 1G graphic card has to compete against his 2G, we both have the same OS too. My processor is a little better, but it can't be the processor because he has the one they reccommend using!
And you thought that made no sense? A friend of mine is playing "Sonic Generations" on his much weaker laptop than ours. His processor is much weaker than the one on the minimun requirements, his graphic card is a nvidia 512MG and the rest is pretty much the minimum required. I can't give you the exact specs of it, because I can't remember his Acer model...
It's not just because of this that playing games on a PC sucks. Tons of this stuff happened to me in the past. Both Civilizations IV and V have more lags than a beta test, no matter in which computer I installed it (both good enough to run them or much stronger). I eventually got IV to work, not flawlesly but playable, but never got V to fully work on me. I also tried Crysis (hands down, best FPS on the PC in my opinion) and it had lags on every single computer I putted it on. Even PC's that are more than twice as strong (is that right? xD) as the specs of the game. Much more stuff happened to me, but I think you get the point...
People who can run their PC games flawlesly on a PC have no idea how lucky they are. From my experience, it's pretty much random and not depended on the systems requirements. Will someone please explain this to me? Maybe i'm doing something wrong, or I missed something or there's something I just can't understand...
Sorry for the looooong topic, guys. I needed to vent a little xD